Desktop Virtualization Company raises $ 10 m from Wanova Lake Greylock and other

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Wanova, a provider of turnkey cloud desktop management raises $ 10 million in series b financing from Carmel Ventures, Greylock Partners and Opus capital. This brings the company's total funding to $ 23 million.

Wanova distributed provides solutions for desktop virtualization to centralize the management of the desktop infrastructure while optimizing the user experience and provides full support for offline use. Wanova Mirage flagship product combines centralized image management PC ability to run images on YOUR PC that allows a company to reduce desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve operations.

With Mirage, PC images, including personalization options, run on the PC, allowing users to take advantage of the native PC performance, including the ability to run multimedia applications and work when you are disconnected from the network.

Wanova actually just scored a big win in the world of IP, declaring it the first United States patent on its interlocking technology, which provides a layered, single image Office PC on your network, local execution images on your PC and optimize synchronization between local and Central images.

The new funds will be utilized towards the establishment of a global sales, support groups and product development.

Wanova distributed desktop virtualization provides, transforming how companies manage, support and protection for their desktops and laptops. Wanova distributed desktop virtualization desktop infrastructure centralized management during ...

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Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, put $ 16. 5 m in Enterprise cloud management application run Okta

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Enterprise cloud app management company Okta was raised to $ 16.5 million in series b funding from Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and gateway. This brings the company's total funding to $ 28 million.

Okta is a cloud management applications. Okta in platform enables companies to have control over their users, applications, and data in the cloud, and outside of the firewall. Startup was founded by Todd McKinnon, former Vice President of the engineers of the most successful cloud-based companies to date, Salesforce.

As Mckinnon said us Okta provides a platform for companies to manage corporate it. He explains that traditional security platform and management are not going to work with the Cloud. When you move to the cloud, IT administrators face the challenge of ensuring and monitoring users and access, simplify adoption and scalability of these applications, and at the same time to ensure that business is optimizing applications in the cloud.

Companies that use cloud-based applications like Salesforce and Google Apps must identity and directory services in the cloud as a place where they can store user profiles and more. Okta gives it managers the ability to maintain one central directory and repeat this for all cloud applications.

The company is releasing a product to the public in January. McKinnon said he initially thought customers would be small and medium-sized businesses, but recently saw acquisitions in large companies using Okta. Companies using Okta include Enterasys Networks, Pandora, T.D.Williamson, AMAG pharmaceuticals, etc. The company says that dramatically ramped up use Okta in on-demand service for authentication over 1 million per month.

And Mckinnon provides more Empire cloud services that "the ability of enterprises to overcome barriers to the adoption of the cloud".

Ben Horowitz, who headed the company's series a round, said about Okta: Okta in original product aims to solve the problem of identity in the cloud. I love this problem, because it is very different in the cloud is local and for new companies, as well. He belivees that the market potential is huge, "because the identity of the cloud market will likely become a cloud management market. Given that these current market combined is between $ 10B and $ 20B (depending on what you count) market is extremely large. "

The new funds will be used for sales and marketing efforts, as well as for ramping up distribution. Within this transaction David Weiden better enterprises will become a consultant to the Board, and Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and co-CEO, Okta will join the Board of Directors.

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